Saint Peter's Church Archives - Lost Wolverhampton

Billy’s Picture Book 9 – The Price We Had To Pay!

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Billy

Join me on a pilgrimage to a Civic Centre, standing today on “A celebrated piece of gone but not Forgotten Land” The end of the 1950’s marked the beginning of a new era. In the background from left to right you see the Education offices or the Clinic. Where outside here today stands […]

Billy’s Picture Book #8: A New Horizon

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Billy

Seventy years on from Horsefair Looking down from the tower of St Peter’s Church in the late 1960s, we see again that “Times are a Changing”. In the foreground, we see there are now two extensive car-parks where the Majestic Retail Market and Patch once stood. On the left is […]

The Two Great Survivors Molineux House & Giffard House, Wolverhampton

Billy’s Picture Book #4: Giffard House and Molineux House

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Billy

WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 3, I was talking about The Deanery, but if […]

The Rat Catcher – He don’t come here anymore.

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Billy

We hear today many convincing stories regarding the centre of town being plagued by rats in the 1940’s and 50’s. Now, as I have mentioned often before, I was born close to St Peter’s Church which seemed to be the centre of all activities during my childhood. To hear a tale […]

“HOWE’S LIFE” – Part One – Memories of a Forties Child

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Billy

Towards the end of the war on my seventh birthday my grandfather gave me a book of short stories by an American author, O Henry. On the inside of the cover my Grandfather or someone else had written these words: And I have remarked that a true delineation […]

North Street’s – Gone West

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Billy

WHAT’S HAPPENED TO NORTH STREET? North Street. dominated by the Telephone exchange ,on one side and the Civic Centre on the other – is not really a street any more since the ring road came and cut it in half. Today in 2015, with Wadhams Hill gone, The Town Hall, Civic Hall […]

Lost Wolverhampton

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Billy

Once Stately, Once Noble, now the subject of pity, this Prince amongst Towns. Now doleful city. I offer you my homage due, and pray that you will rise anew. To see once again through the eyes of a dove , and look across the town I love, a place once much admired, I see […]